Just curious, what is everyones favorite brand of sniper? I love valdolf and hyperion, with them i sacrifice some power (compared to jackobs) but get great stability and low recoil

I love Maliwan snipers mostly for their awesome reload animation. Looks like you're loading an energy core or battery into it instead of a magazine full of bullets. The glowing colors depending on what elemental damage they deal is cool too.

Hyperion snipers have terrible scope sway. Maliwan have the hardest hitting elementals (bonus damage on snipers and pistols [around 150% of the stated damage value]), but if I find a fast firing Vladof that is a few levels higher I will use that until I can replace it with a better Maliwan.

Hyperion shotguns on the other hand are amazing, especially the ones that only fire one round at a time and also have a large magazine. Great for getting medium-long range crits once the accuracy ramps up. Torgues are too slow firing and the projectiles are too slow as well. Tediores are occasionally useful. Throwing the empty shotgun at rakks is hilarious.

Maliwan's my favorite. If Hyperion didn't have the lame "Firing Increase Accuracy" they'd be the Atlas of Borderlands 2.

Yeah, what's up with Atlas? Did the company go bust after hunting the first vault? I mean their weapons were pretty hit and miss in the original, but for them to be completely missing is a bit of a bummer.

I found a Bandit shock plasma caster and the plasma orbs basically went everywhere as well as phasing in and out of existence. It was insane to the point of being worthless. My Dahl burst-fire fire plasma caster on the other hand is great. A little inaccurate after a few bursts though. I can definitely see Hyperion as being the best brand for these.Edited by zinfinion - 9/29/12 at 9:45pm

I also like Bandit for the fact that they jam as many rounds into the guns as possible. Rocket launchers that fire three rounds and smg's that hold over 80, lol okay. And they have the best names. But besides that their stats are all over the map, at this point I've only ended up using two Bandit guns.

Yeah, what's up with Atlas? Did the company go bust after hunting the first vault? I mean their weapons were pretty hit and miss in the original, but for them to be completely missing is a bit of a bummer.

Only if you have a large enough mag.
I also like Bandit for the fact that they jam as many rounds into the guns as possible. Rocket launchers that fire three rounds and smg's that hold over 80, lol okay. And they have the best names. But besides that their stats are all over the map, at this point I've only ended up using two Bandit guns.

Don't know if I still have it, but I was using a Bandit pistol on my Siren around level 12-13ish, held 86 rounds lol.

I also like Bandit for the fact that they jam as many rounds into the guns as possible. Rocket launchers that fire three rounds and smg's that hold over 80, lol okay. And they have the best names. But besides that their stats are all over the map, at this point I've only ended up using two Bandit guns.

I've noticed a number of the Bandit weapons tend to have squirrely projectile paths for lack of a better term. Much like One Eyed Jack's revolver from the original, but not as extreme. Mostly rocket launchers but I have run across a few other types that don't shoot in a straight line.